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​​Lesson Planning with AAC

​​Lesson Planning with AAC

Through teaching students with speech and language differences, we experience the unique ways they communicate, but how can we incorporate that into our lessons? In my classroom, I have students who range from verbal, to semi-verbal, to completely non-verbal; but by incorporating the use of alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) throughout our lessons in three […]

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How to Motivate Students by Modeling Communication

How to Motivate Students by Modeling Communication

The importance of motivation and modeling Every teacher has a toolbox full of tricks to motivate students to communicate effectively. In my experience, these “tricks” are always evolving due to each student’s needs. For me, one trick that has stood the test of time is modeling. Modeling is when you use the student’s personal augmentative […]

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Understanding Student Potential

Understanding Student Potential

As educators, it’s only natural for us to want to help our students achieve their full potential during their time with us on their academic journey. Often, it can be challenging to know how to see their full potential. I’m here to tell you to not hold back, set those expectations for your students and […]

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Creating Connections: Neural Development and the No Limits Method

Creating Connections: Neural Development and the No Limits Method

Throughout this blog series, we’ve discussed the unique needs of students with disabilities and how the No Limits Method product lines can help teachers, paraprofessionals, and others to meet those needs. By better understanding these needs, we can adapt our methods to help students reach their fullest potential. In fact, by meeting these needs (physical, […]

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Creating Connections: Going Beyond Social-Emotional Learning

Creating Connections: Going Beyond Social-Emotional Learning

As educators, social-emotional learning (SEL) is a central topic in the current discussion about best practices for teaching. Many have seen positive outcomes from SEL in academic performance, healthy relationships, mental wellness, and more. The No Limits Method not only makes use of SEL within its training modules, but expands upon it, showing how the […]

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Promoting Social Development Through the No Limits Method

Promoting Social Development Through the No Limits Method

Throughout this series of blogs, we’ve discussed the Core Values of the No Limits Method as a means to empower teachers of exceptional students and help these students to reach their fullest potential. Recently, we discussed how the No Limits Method can provide teachers and other professionals with strategies to meet their students’ emotional and […]

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Having a Bad Day? Reflecting on the Causes of Behaviors

Having a Bad Day? Reflecting on the Causes of Behaviors

Addressing behavior through the No Limits Method Many teachers have countless examples of their students having bad days. Perhaps, they just couldn’t focus on a particular task or were acting out. During those times, you may have tried everything you knew to help, but nothing was working. This can be draining, but as teachers, we must help our students define […]

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Creating Connections: Meeting Students’ Emotional and Spiritual Needs

Creating Connections: Meeting Students’ Emotional and Spiritual Needs

In this series of blogs, we’ve discussed the foundations of the No Limits Method, how to use the Method to assist students with learning and language differences, and how the Method’s resources meet each student’s needs to help them develop physical and cognitive skills. While all aspects of the Method are essential to the promotion […]

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Creating Connections: Integrating Opportunities for Movement

Creating Connections: Integrating Opportunities for Movement

Exceptional student education teachers are expert multitaskers. Each student you work with has unique goals and needs, and we do our best for our students, but we don’t always have the resources we need to help them progress.  What if there was a way to help them progress, while also making effective instruction simpler? This […]

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No Limits Method: Embodied Cognition

No Limits Method: Embodied Cognition

Throughout our previous blog posts about the No Limits Method, we’ve discussed our Core Values, the integration of communication technology, and the Method’s use in a classroom setting. Now that our readers have a better understanding of some practical applications, it’s important to explain why the Method works. This way, those that are using the resources and techniques that […]

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Communication Connections: No Limits Method and Tobii Dynavox

Communication Connections: No Limits Method and Tobii Dynavox

Core Values: Communication When teaching, we all have those times when we question the effectiveness of our lessons. It’s hard to miss those blank stares or inquisitive eyes staring back at us. We tend to wonder, at what point did we lose our students and how can we communicate the content in a different way? […]

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